CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.] THE HONGKONG A WHATPDA DOCK CO.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PREBE.” Hongkong, 16th August, Sin-That great philosopher of the age, Herbert Spencer, bas, in a recent work, laid down the following marim: "Do not suppose things are going right till it is proved they are going wrong, but rather supporn they are going wrong till it is proved they are going right.”
With this maxim before us, let us see how it affects the position of the shareholders in the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co. in regard to the proposal for a new dock, soon to be submitted adysuced by the advocates of this scheme are firstly, that it is necessary that one should always be abreast of the times," that is to say, to possess a bigger dock capable of taking in
THE HONGKONG SAILI PRESS, BATUNDAY, AUGUST 16th, 1902
! frat mooted, "Times cohange and projects
mást change with them.
Witness recently a local atlyging company, which Jaunched out it au ambitions scheme of increasing both te ospital and tonnage, regar di les of all warning, and which had hitherto don e extremely well, but now finds Iself in a deuce of quandary, and is foundering in desper mud,
It will probably be argued that if the sohnice is so extremely namitable, how is it that it Possesses some strong advoontes! The anew ac in self-orident. There are some shareholders who have special interests, and would un- donbtedly derive benefit, were the scheme proceeded with, such, for instance, an those who could supply materials for building purposes, &c. One important factor in connection with the opposition I had almost forgotten to men-
POLICE FOURT-
Friday, 15th Augnet.
BEFORE ME. F. A. HAZELAND (POLICH
MASÍBÍRATE).
TURNING THE TABLES,AU
A hawker who was fined $2 for obstruction charged the lakong who arrested him with salt. He told the magistrate that the const able caught him by the queue and slapped his
Ince.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
AHANGHALTIMES ABERVIOR,
THE CORONATION,
BEFORE
London, 8th August. «His Majesty's gift for saying and doing that which appeals to the public heart at the right time, nerven, the King on the are of Coronation, then he has endeared himself afresh to the peeple, through an expression of thanks for their devoted interret in his welfare. The antions to assure them of his heartfelt appre- message issued to day says that lie is most ciation of the evidences of deep and widespread This evidence was corroborated by Abdulsympathy for him when his life was in Sumed, fourth clerk at the magistracy, and the Imaibout danger. He offers his meat profound akong was fined $3.
gratitude to Divine Providence that bis THEFT OF A TARRAGE-TIUKET. life ban been preserved, and ho entrents On Tuesday last, as already reported, with his own, that he be given strongh to die
that the prayore of the people be joined. Cantonese was coming out of the Harbour charge the important duties that will devolve which he and just taken out for Singapore by All Londen has heard the message, and loves the steamer Nam Song, when a street loafor, the King for it more than ever. Holiday native, snatched the ticket from him and passed It in a twinkling tia confederate, who bolted. crowds throng the stroots, which are in gals The first man was caught by the dupedres, cheering the King, and bubbling with
enthusiasm, över to event.
EASTMAN'S
KODAKS. FILMS.
AND ACCESSORIES
DEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN
GOOD WORK. PROMPT RETURN.
WE HAVE AN ESTABLISHMENT SOLELY DEVOTED TO EXECUTING WORK FOR AMATEURS, AND WE HAVE LARGER AND BETTER FACILITIES
to su extraordinary meeting, The ressoustion. So far, we have only ioneled that Office carrying in his hand passage-ticket upon him as Sovereign of a Great Empire. FOR DEVELOPING AND PRINTING THAN ANY HOUSE IN THE COLONI.
question in its bearing on the amount of work that may be lost to us, bat were we to increase our capital to the enormons extent proposed. we should be compelled to make a regular fight
larger vessels, which may come our way when with our opponents, in which case there will be can came along. The care chine up on realand, sesarences respecting this King leave no doubt ACHEE & CO.,
such vessels are built, as also, to serve as an
adjanet to our present dock accommodation, in the event of that being fully occupied. The second repson advanced is that we should pre pare to meet the powerful opposition of our neighbours..
Before discussing the merits or demerits of the reasotis mated above, the principal point to be considered is what the undertaking is likely to cent de. If we accept the estimate given by fairly reliable authorities, the total cost will not fall shost of four million dollars.
As, however, estimates are proverbially murel able, and generally err on the wrong side, another millios may fairly be added to the figures already given, bringing the total outlay in cous figures to five millions: On this basis then, we shall have to make an extra revouno on the following acale
6 per cent. interest on five
milliona
16 per cent, depreciatin
$300,000
800,000
$1,100,000
The last figure may appear somewhat erg gerated, but when it is considered that our prosent docks with all the tremendous improve ments effected in them during so many years Leed 18 per cent, allowance for depreciation "(vide directora" report for last half year of 1901 and first of this year) surely the new dock at its inception would require at least an equal amount of trimming down in its book value. It is thas soon, tisat this pot scheme requiren $1,100,000 | a year to be just barely kept up. Will the new dock, make this smonnt by itself
Going into tuo question of providing larger accommodation for big vessels that are likely to
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out-throat competition for a few years, Inrelsing a frittering away of a vast amount of British capitel until one or both sides are landed in a bankruptcy court.
Against such cut-throat work the Times in a leading srticle on the "shipping combine". dwelt specially on the advantages gourd by that combination, because it becomes the means of saving British capital from being frittered away in uselem competition. We have time the warning of an undoubted authority before us, which we should certainly take to heart.
However, putting aside all that has been said, in any scheme that is not before the sharebelters, it is most important that the interests of those widows or orphans, whose sil in all is invested in thesy shares, should be carefully guarded. Thin poor olaes can not afford to have their sole means of cubsistence termed abont in the uncertain seas of combined
speculation or manipulation.
came
and the thief was sentenced to one month's hard labour.
EXCESS PASSENGERS.
P.C. Counsell charged the master of the steam nunch We On with carrying 49 passen gere in excess, of the number -allowell by kis licence. Altogether there were on board 120 people, The defendant, who pleaded guilty and said he could not prevent the overcrowding, was fined 250.
He was fined $15 on a second charge of not havior bis licones on a carspicuous place on the launch.
BEFORE ME. J. H. KEMP ACTING' POLICE MAGISTRATE).
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AEBAULT BY A`LUKONG.
Chinese constable 386 was charged on mard with assaulting a private ieksha-coolie. He
denied having done so.
The evidence showed that the defendant s'op ped the complainant in the street and naked hin to produce his ricksha-licence. The complainant explained that he was in private employment, and consequently had no licence. Then tho defendent, for apparently no reason whatere, struck the complainant and afterwards took him to the police station, probably to give colour to his action in striking the coolie as the assault had been witnessed by an European and a Chinaman, both of whom later, para aridance to that effect. At the station the inkong wanted to charge the coolie with having no licence, but the sergeant on duty refused to take it, and instead placed 366: name and
Other arguments on be produced ad in- finitum, but I have already trespassed too much on your valuable space. I will sum up in one word, I would respectfully urge upon the general body of shareholders that when the scheme is laid before them for discusion they should insist upon receiving alrolute and positive assurance that the proposed new dock shall not, now or at any future time, countitate a burden on the resources or savanno of the present establishment, that it must stand by itself and be capable of paying its own way. Thess conditions are domande 1 by the merest common prudence. "Si quid ugai prudenter itgus, et- respice finem" says an ancient Latin maxim, and it holds good stijl. How long woult a
Two Chixames were fined $100 each or 14 business man last were he to act otherwise thon day had labour for being in unlawful posser.
number on the sheet.
He was subsequently discharged with caution..
HEAVY FINE.
that his infirmity has been sufficiently repaired. to warrant confident expectation that his strength will prove equal to to-morrow's demands. If the brightening skies make good their promise of clear weather, the pageant will be one of rare brilliancy.
AND AFTER,
London, 10th August. Edward VII-and Queen Alexandra were crowned in Westminster Abbey shortly after noon yesterday, in a scene of great splendour and with impressive ceremony. Never in the memory of anyone. Hving hail that ediffce been so gorgeously arroyed. Its appointments bedtted the regal occasion which added another event of transcendent imporisnes to its historie list. Efforts to which the Committee of Arrangements had long applied italt, to less the ordeal of the ceremony by cartalling it, were not ineffectual; but in spits of them the Coronation occupied more than two hours, and it proved so trying that the aged Primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury, faltered as is placed the Crown on His njesty's head, or come by his emotions. He would have fainted had not attendants caught him and carried bim ando, where he rallied under the administration of restoratives and was able to resume his imesions and crown the Queen
17A.
PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS STORE. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
FEW DOORS EAST OF HONGKONG HOTEL. Hongkong. 6th May. 1902.
COREA.
"Esson Third" writes in the N.-C. Daily Notes:
There are certain characteristion that the Orient hae in common, all its people, whether alalay, Hindu, China30 or Coreau. (We except the Japanero. they lifer altogether. Seem ingly the same spirit has breathed his influencs all the way from the Gauges to the lumen Hirer. This whole region lives according to enstom, cat according to reason. It has o regulations, but uses its trust in the gods. It faith in the laws of hygiene or sanitary
894 Meanwhile the Beoal-Fusan Railroad, under Japanese control and capital, is pushing rapidly... on. The other day the largest merchant ship that aver entered Chemulpo, 10,000 tons, Blue. Funzel Line, brought steal rails. But the Japanese, too, have had their trials They reached a mountain and began to tunnel, when grave-inders, geomancers, and dealers in fung.she held a pow-wow. There was royal grave on the bill and such and such a King had est on the top years ago; it would never do to tunnel, "Then," said the Japanese
THE LOWER DECK'S FOOD,
be built in the future, w wust not forget with prudence? Let us profit by the experisuession of twelve piculs of Japanese coal, value-$6, shouting with enthusiasm, good-humoured, und Į Burma, Particulars Coran is the Chino; while there would be 30 difficulty in baking
that the object of the great" shipping combine" is to expressly put a stop to that ruinous com petition of building larger and Jarger ships, which had hitherto prevailed among the steam ship lines of the Atlantic: For the present therefore, the limit in size has been resobed,
at all events for some time. That being so, or present Kowloon dock seems amply big for all practical purposes. By only lengthening the No. 1 dock, we shall able to accommodate the very largest mercantile steamers afloat.
As to having the now dock serve an au adjunct, I need only point out what the
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of athors: The case of the local 8.8. Company I bave already referred to above, but it cannot be too often repeated as i warning: This Company, from being in a most enviable position as the result of thoughtlest expansion now its shareholders, despairing about getting any finds itself in a bfe-and-droth struggle, while
dividend, know not from day to day whom they may have to put up their shatters.
The road we should follow seems clearly indicated. After years of nursing and tho. expenditure of. Fast Amm one establish- ment, thanks to a very hard-working staff,
directors themselves line may on this head who fully deserved every cent of pay or to show how absurd it would be to carry out bonus they received, has been brought up to muy extension of our present accommodation. a pitch of perfection which answers every Lu their last roport, the directors particularly reasonable call that is likely to be inade on it, point out that the first half of 1901 was excepLet well enough alone, and tiiker not with any tionally good and that we may take our Utopian sohenies. We cannot go wrong in present scale of work as our proper basis, following the ripe and sage advice of the great Now it is not aăreasonable to ask, dering that Herbert Spencer which I again quote: period of fat king, on how many occasions
were our docks employed to their fullest capacity We might also go further
ZBAREHOLDER.
REWARD FOR BRAVERY.
Do not suppose things are going right it is proved they are going wrong, but rather suppose they are going wrong till it is proved and say, granting that they were so full,they are going right."Yours, et, was it at any time necessary, to reject work, und how often? As for as I know, they were never so full that they could not have accepted further work, even when through anmeone's blander the Juichen was allowed to slip through our hunds. It would, however, be the height of
We understand that on the recommendation fully to take as an example an exceptional half of HE the Offer Administering the Govern- year a half year we are told we may never see ment, Police Constable 29, Counsell, is to be again. On sound business principles, the made awarded the Belilion Medal for saving life in usually adopted for future guidance is to the harbour during the typhoon on the 10th fod, and so a poried alt. The circumstances were reported by us at to a close the time, and me as follows:-At 1 am ou who but the day mentioned a junk in Yaumati bay was TAPE outlay fr moresona to be in distress. No means were at hand knowing, as he must 10 rescue the unfortunate occupante, dive in during the whole of the period we number, and it seemed that all hope for deks were almot them was gone when Constable Counsell, we have as yet been carrying a teline, entered the water, and, Whave so far swimming as near as possible to the junk, hile still in the possession threw the line aboard. By this mosna of a clear Seld. What shout the opposition the lives of the five people were saved. An opposition, be it'remembered, not hypothe. It was extremely dank at the dime and the fical, or forming, or threatened, but su oppo- | heavy sea and wreckere tossing about on the ion that very real indeed, and an accom- wares made Constable Counsell's task an plished hard fact, right under our very nos 11 then, having so opp tion to contend with and with • practical monopoly of doaking, we as barely keep our docks half full, what
-fake un ayezago has been the one Accepting this perio Innatio mon
know
have Thalf em
reokon:
viewed our
amount of
of our pres when that
exceedingly dangerous one. The immersion brought on an attack of cramp, and Counsell had to ĝu to hospital. He is the man who recently dived into the water after three thieves rather what portion who wore cheaping in their sampan and who weto expect, finally took to the water: one of them, it may,
now slowly be remembered, he captured after a straggle Its head, actually com- | We are glad ibat Constable Counsell's bravery nilitions, is not to pass unrewarded. *-
oppo
but surely "rala mences operations? Uzd
it would be steer madness, not less than suicidal, to carry through the heme contemplated, and ons is forecdto the conclusis that ita advocates must be blind; No. 1 repeat, ortunity for building a new dock has Time was when it would have been. consid red a sound policy, but in the face of tno powerful oppositions, cat there by two
our.
tere now remains the general principle that it is consistent with sound business rules werything depends on
abreast of the timer.
CHURCH SERVICES.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
17th August, 12th Sunday after Trinity.
Matins (11am ze Responses. Ferial Vezite, Craich, Paulins, Smith, Wellnce and Bimbault Te Deum, Hayes, Eussell and stainer: Benedictus, Garrett la G Hymns, 4 and 164 Kgris, Garrict in D fat Offertory Hymn,
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INCORRIGIBLE.
Allen Gardner, a Canadian, was sent to prison for two months with hard labour for failing to return to the house of detention, which he had left ostensibly to look for a job He was committed as a agraat on 17th June been imprisoned for not returning at sunset to last, and twice before the present occasion had
the boss of detcution.
Fear that tho King's strength might yllit to the excitement and fatigue of the occasion were happily dissipated. He Sore himself through out not only with the dignity that distinguishes bin, but with every appearance of robust health. Neither in face nor carriage did he show trace of illness. The multitude sew him at close range and can testify that he looked well, and the royal and other distinguished participants and spectators at Westminster when they saw him able to carry himself to the Abbey manifested the most agreeable surprise
und of the ceremony seemingly without fatigue. The Queen oppentel rarely beautiful.
It was eleven o'clock when His Majesty sat out from Backingham Palace. The procession to Westminster Abbey occupied fifteen minutes. There were throngs of people along the way.
well dressed. Even in the strests, away from any possible olanes to see the procession, the crowds had attired themselves in their best, until it looked as if the commonplace had taken leave of London. During the long proceedings at Westminster Abbey, the epectators along the way divorted themselves with cheering and of long-power left to cheer the Proctor patriotic songs. They still had abundance
sion both ways, -honouring next after Their Majesties the heroes of the Boer war. There was a tremendone, cvation for His Majesty's nurses when they reached Westminster Abbey, Automobiles figured as a conspicuous feature in Westminster arrivals. Grn. Heary Trotter, who commanded the troops, rods in one. On the Mall two royal 'carriages collided, and Lord Edward Pelbar
clinton was slightly hurt,
The exnot time of the Coronation of His Majesty was 1921 o'clock.
King's weather retrieved itself after having dallied with British patienes for a season, and gave a umiling sky for the Coronation.
JOINT STOCK SHARES.
Messrs Vernon and Smyth my in their weekly share report, dated Hongkong, 15th August.-There has been more general enquiry ia our market during the interval under review, and some of our principal stocks have improved in marketable value. Business, however, con- tinues restricted, owing to the disinclination of holders to sell, except under pressure."
BANKS.-Hongkong and Shanghaishava ruled quiet daring the greater part of the week,
London, 8th August, and sales at akan bobs are sport. At A telegram at hand to-day from the Hague the clone, shares can be obtained at S610, with says that all of the Boer leaders, except Lucas, some buyers at 8607) London is unchanged at lever. Schalk Burger, and Steyn-the last £68. Nationals can be procured at $27.
aped being still gravely ill-will meet in con- MABINE INSURANCE-Unions continue inference at Utrecht on August 31, for the purpose request at $390. China Traders are reported of laying eat a plan of action for the future. sold at $57 and are wanted. North Chinas hare It has been proposed to agitate for the formation been pinced at Ta 1872). Yangtazes continue of an Irreconcilable Boer Party, the leaders to on offer at $130. Centous hare sold and are in remain in Europe, for the dissemination of
· further request at K160.
propaganda hostile to English interests, aud
FIRE INSURANCES.-Hongkongs are wanted at 130. Chinas are unchanged at $91 bayers. SHIPPING-Hongkong, Centou and Macaes have sold at 87, and are now offering at 838 Indo-Chinas continue steady with buyers at $87, China and Manilas can be procured at $314; and Dongless at $434. Ebell Transporte have again changed hands at £1. 12s. 6d. Star Ferries are presurable at quotatione.
REFINERIES-Chins Sugars have improved, and sales at $105, $106 and $107 are reported the market closing with bayers at $106. Lutons have dropped to $15 with sales
MINING-Jelebus have improved to $1 hoyers, Raubs are weaker with sellers at 87. Paajoms and Charbonnages are tuchanged.
SOUTH AFRICA. KEUGEE CALLS A CONFERENCE.
hear our own settlement." "Oh, but we could give us a new gate through the city walls breeds despotism, that regals the individual never give a gate, there are sight now and you subject us nothing except an object of plunder, can't hate more than eight." Then," said the It bourgwa without over reckoning on paying. Japanese, through the meuntain we go, for. It trusts any kind of superstition, gossip or
ward, mirch? The government reconsidered wildest rumenr. It peoples the earth and the and said, "Take the gate, go through the air with spirite, ghosts and "white things" of wall anywhere you please but don't tunnel the all kinds. It has no judgment except where mountain." The railway swung off to the side custom leads the way. It rejoices in all kinds and all is peace. of decoration for the otter mas. Il never says what it thinks but only what you want to hear. It would rather die than lose face. It does not know, how to run-a nespapur. It is peaceable and pareive if you loase it alous, but Mr. Arad White contributes a highly Bercar then wolves if you rouse it. It a faithful interesting article to the current number of ns a servant bnt merciless as a master. It is the National Review cu "The Food of the older than Methnaulah yet lacking common Lower Deck," and very properly complains suuse. It has sons and grandsons galore, who that after accepting the report of Admiral Devar trust each other," It bas un idea of Hice's Committee the Admiralty deliberately domestic comfort, and looks down on woman, postponed its adoption for a year for reasons It expects to live on after foreign-devildom has which sau only be described as lings. Mr. mouldered into dust.
Arnold White lays stress on the fact that In all these
A. There are no iudications of soft bread in the ships galleys, the old hard change, all her ways are chronic und mom des biscuit je still served ont, und to this statement tined to continue world without end. Thero is objection is taken that it is the fault of the a saying in Corea, Oce questions in the East, mon themselves, for when they were offered and another answers in the West," meaning soft bread they preferred biscuit, ostensibly on that neither one understands the other. This the ground that while they were compelled to must base been the, condition of things when take up the full ration of brand they economise the treaties were signed in the eighties. I can- by way of savings in taking up biscuit. There
literally and actually a case of East and West, Fisher interested himself in this question: when not imagine Cares understanding the articles of is, however, another side to the story which, a forsiga treaty, translated into Wonfi. It was we believe, has not hitherto been told. Sir John where neither know what the other was driving. he
was Admiral-Superintendent at Portsmouth, at. The treaties gave the right to foreigners to and, thorofore, years before the appointment purchase land in the open ports and in the of Admiral Rice's Committee. He made repital; but of lato His Majesty, ignorant, no inquiries at the school of cookery on the doubt, of the fact that there ever was a treaty, Duke of Wellington, and was told that bas commanded that no more land be sold to it was impossible to make edible bread or foreigners. They may get out of the country pastry from the floor served out of the or climb a tree, dat land they shall not have. nary: Putting the information to a test he Last year a Frenchman secared a building went some flour from his house to the Duhr site near the deserted West Palace, which had of Wellington, and brought away som navy smo geomantic influence or other on the pre- done. From each, sample a leaf of bread and a sent dynasty. He was ordered off, and wher he pie were made on the Duke of Wellington and at refused, the Government spant $5,000 walling the Admiral Superintendent's house. Neither bim in and cutting off all his exite, piling their cook could do anything with the uary flour; fortifications till the Frenchman could no longer both succeeded with the rival quality, and to sea over. The massive wall crossed bis ground, this day, when tarts and pies are made on board walked over his garden patch and out off the ship for Sunday's dinner the four is invariably back entrance to his kitchen with ten feet of drawn from the canteen. It does not follow mascary. He appealed and the case was sub- mitted to arbitratin. The Frenchman was awarded $7,500, to be paid by the Corean Government on the Day of Judgment:
that the flour is inherently bad, as every miller and baker knows how to mix American or Russian flour with British-grown 1roduce; but the navy flour is unmixed, and the cook has not. yet been found who can deal with it entis- factorily. And thus the men prefer the hard biscuit, which they can eat, to the soft bread which resembles hard, unleavened dough.
Since this unfortunate episode the Em peror's mandate has gone forth," No more land to be sold." Land has been sold of course, and widd continue to be, and the poor Corsan "go- betweens" are tortured and twisted, ⠀ “Why did you dare to sell land to a foreigner (yang in),
Wanted you, did he, when His Majesty you Escal? Because he wanted me to." MOET & CHANDON'S you cannet! Down with him! Fifty blows
cry the yamen-runners, as the two-
the lieutenants and lessur chiefs to mix up decline to marito pleyer to the conference discontent in South Africo. Ms. Kruger. because Meyer dined with Lord Kitchener, *Hr-eie,' that offence having committed Meyer, in handed paddies swing through the air. Only Kruger's view, to an attitude of reconciliation Oriental flesh and blood that has no highly. net compatible with patriotic principles. The keyed nerves could stand it.
Aigo! ago has been usually well informed concerning Back to the prison he goes to serve his time Brussels correspondent of the Standard, who screams the poor go-between, I die, I die!" Boer sentiments and plans hatched within under starvation and torture. This is the bis teritory of observation, says he is in a process by which isnd is secured in the Coreau position to affirm positively that Bothe, De Vet, capital to-day. The treaty says that land may ard Delprey, who are to attend the conference, be purchased, but who knows about the treaty? are not in sympathy with the Irreccncilable Themes that made it talked in the East and Party project, and will declare themselves auswered in the West, and so farse l ́oren goes, against it at the conference.
there is no t enty, never was, szd never will be.
Railways are the fad for the present. There is one under construction between the capital and Euiju, on the Yalu, 350 miles 10 the north.
FOOCHOW
From the Foochow Echo of the 9th Just (which comes out in a special illuminated carer and with a poem in honour of the Coronation) we are the following items:
DOCKS, WHARVES AND GODOWNB - Hong- daily rising rates to $205, at which more shares kong and Whaipos Decks have sold at grand canbe placed. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharves have sold at 389 and are in further request, New Amoy Docks continue in demand at 835.
LANDS, HOTELS and Buildings.—Hosg.-. $168, 169 and 8170 and are in demand at $169. kong Land Investimenta have been done at Kowloon Lands and West Points are unchanged. Humphreys Estates have sold at $111. Hong- kong Hotels are quiet at $135 with sellers, and
Oriente Hotels at $45 sellers.
COTTON MILLS-There are as changes to report ander this head.
MISCELLANEOUS — Green Island Cements have sold at $201, and can be placed at this Agure. (hina Borneos have changed hands at The reduced rate of 519. Fenwicks have sold at
It is affirmed that at the explosion that took plies a fortnight ago only three barrels of gunpowder iguited and that only five lives were st. Officially the accident was regarded as of The Tegramme for the celebration of the sti Importance. coronation today at Kalinng includes a service children's sports in the afternoon, and fireworks at the church at 10.80 ... a picnic und
and muxio in the evening.
Ou Thursday evening about 6 o'clock a fire broke out in East Street in the city, beyond the White Pagode, and seventy bouses were dos troyed. The Min Magistrato and Central
Wie
DRY IMPERIAL
CHAMPAGNE
PEE 1 DOZEN BOTTLES
PER 2 DOZEN BOTTLES
$54.
$56.
MARTELL'S THREE STAR
PER DOZEN
BRANDY
KING EDWARD VIE
PER Dozen
890.
It is to be built with Coreun capital ander the charge of French engineers. Not long ago s celebration took place when the first turned and all went smoothly for a time, the only ruffle on the placid surface being the fact that the trenchman would go round with $ tape-line and measure all the coolies" beads. Thry beld a conference Under heaven and taking the site of our heads?" above ourth,” said they “what can ke meat by *** Menn-PM said the others. He's after medicine, don't yon that seemed to have no owner and the engineer know that? Later on there was a skull found LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY
sent it home to Paris There,"
and mauicions that's for medicine, to and the lies grew so pronounced that a freak batch of work- men struck, saying they would not have their heads measured. Then said the Frenchman origin in a body to Yi Tengil, Lord High Tobacco Trust are offering of $15 tagh of the Are is unknown.
prosented their car By all MEMOR-Hongkong and Shanghai Banking he competition for the
up took the laws of the ancients." said Yi, this men Corporation, ordinary half yearly meeting in place un Green Island last Wednesday Qaite must be demised. He is employed to buid morrow. 16th inalant. Hongkong and Wham a number of ladies appeared on the acsue, a railroad and has zo authority whatever to po Duck Co., Ld, ordinary half-yearly mit Some of them, notwithstanding the marsky round preparing his devilish decoctions. on the 18th instaut
ghue | tate of the ground, entered into the "pick up Work stopped and there was a long tug-of-wa
this piece port of the performance with grout It was explained that it was for scientific spirit. The winner of the uvant (Mr. G. purposes that the beads were mesourod. in bie sheeting that he bids fair to be a tower of that Paked No more money for the Penenon) in skowing such stondy improvement | Scientific purposes, what kind of medieśne is strength to the Club. He is being pressed road wide this man is in and I hold the strings, hard by the new member. Bir W. G. MooVicar) So the Seoul-Eaiju Hailway has stopped. who was only two birds behind Menara Frear Bach is the story an fold me by an enlightened and Gralam zilized at the fouth and 2r, Corena. Hickott at the fifteenth round,
went
At 810, Watkins have improved to 37 buyers soldiers
and prerON OF of Corea, and
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